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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Wrong keyboard or why I hate to be not at home

We're having a hardcore repair of floor and walls at home now.
yesterday after i spent a day in a stinky flat(after we painted a floor) i decided to move to my friend's place(from where i'm VNCed now). I needed to work.

the problem is not only because my friend runs windows and i can't copy files to my server(i can only move them to my webserver so i fetch them from here) or do any other simple operation, but the wrong desktop, the wrong keyboard and mouse. it's not mine, i can't really work with it... on unix boxes i exchange content with my server using sftp(ssh), i can't really do it with putty, and im too lazy to look for an sftp client. i remember seeing something on sf.net at a time... anyways, windows is a stupid OS can do nothing, except for running games(which linux does very good as well, the problem is there aren't too much games for unix). i can still manage to work on it, but... windows+wrong place=EPIC FAIL, which i can't resist.